Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker is a renowned Belgian choreographer and dancer. She was born on June 25, 1960, in Mechelen, Belgium. Keersmaeker is widely recognized for her innovative and influential contributions to contemporary dance.
She studied dance at Mudra School in Brussels, where she delved into various dance techniques, including classical ballet and modern dance. Keersmaeker later continued her studies at the Tisch School of the Arts in New York.
In 1982, she founded the Rosas dance company. Through her choreographic work, Keersmaeker has collaborated with numerous performers, musicians, and visual artists. Her choreography often has a minimalist and repetitive nature, engaging with rhythm and geometry.
One of her most notable works is “Rosas danst Rosas,” which premiered in 1983. This piece became highly influential and gained international recognition, showcasing Keersmaeker’s unique aesthetic and meticulous attention to detail.
Throughout her career, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker has received numerous awards and honors for her contributions to dance and choreography. Her artistic vision and dedication continue to inspire and shape the contemporary dance landscape.
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Avignon, Cour d’honneur, 4.30 in the morning. This promises to be an uncommon experience: the city still sleeping, the day dawning, so favourable to a face-to-face encounter, frank and direct, between singers and dancers, between 14th-century music and today’s public. The choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and the artistic director of the Graindelavoix vocal ensemble,…
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Fase, Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich, choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s very first performance, premiered in 1982. Fase comprises three duets and one solo, choreographed to four repetitive compositions by the American minimalist Steve Reich. De Keersmaeker uses the structure of Reich’s music to develop an independent movement idiom that doesn’t merely…
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After turning to the theatre (cf. the Medea production), Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker ventured into the world of opera. Ottone, Ottone opened in 1988 and was De Keersmaeker’s first ‘large-scale’ project: based on Nikolaus Harnoncourt’s interpretation of Claudio Monteverdi’s opera L’Incoronazione di Poppea, it was performed by a cast of 16. The transformation of the…
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Partita 2 stems from a peculiar delight: what happens when two choreographers, famed for directing many bodies, rejoice in their love for their own dancing, which might be a greater urge for them than the choreographing they excel at? A collaboration of equals, to begin with, even if Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker creates a choreographic…
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New York composer Steve Reich’s percussions provide a mesmerizingly rhythmical score for Drumming Live, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s ballet created in 1998 by the Rosas Company, and performed today by the dancers of the Paris Opera Ballet. Like Rain, which entered the Ballet’s repertoire in 2011, Drumming Live is one of the choreographer’s most abstract works…
